Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg - Veliki Rob / Großer Rain (via Veronjak / Hausberg)

Access to the starting point:
Cross the Border crossing Ljubelj into Austria, and after a few kilometres turn left towards the Poden / Bodental valley. After a few more climbs, you reach Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg, where you park in the parking lot under the church.

Path description:
From the parking lot under the church, continue straight ahead and quickly reach Gasthaus Kirchenwirt in Windisch Bleiberg, where a marked trail to Singerberg branches off to the right in front of the guesthouse, and a marked trail to the left branches off after the guesthouse and before the end of the village, heading towards the Poden / Bodental valley.

Continue left, cross the bridge and climb up to the nearby chapel. At the chapel, continue straight on (you can also take a sharp right, in which case you will walk a short distance higher up the asphalt road) and pass a few houses to the nearby trestle, where you leave the road.

Continue to the right, where you will see a trail marker 17 on a nearby tree. The path ahead leads you along the edge of the forest, higher up through the lane of a forest, and then along the edge of the pasture to the asphalt road, which you will reach by the chapel. Cross the road to the right (on the left the village of Frog / Bodental) and continue in the route "Bodental, Sonnenhang 15 min. ".

Then ascend through the lane woods, following route No 2. A little further on, the forest ends and, with fine views of the central Karawanks, you reach the Lužekar Pension / BergPension Lausegger.
Behind the guesthouse is a stable, which is climbed up on an asphalt road, and then continued on a minor dirt road, which climbs steeply across, and a little further on turns sharp left and, with fine views and through the lane of the forest, leads us to a hunting observation post and a fenced pasture. A little above the hunting observation post, continue into the woods, on the footpath in the direction of footpath No 13, which continues without any major changes in altitude, but most of the time continues along the fence. As you gradually move away from the pasture, path No 13 branches off slightly to the left onto path No 3, which you continue walking along.
Just a little further on, cross cart track, and the path turns slightly to the left and joins cart track a little higher up, which is followed for some time. When you reach a grazing fence higher up on an indistinct ridge, leave cart track and continue left into the forest, where you soon see the signs for route 3, and the path continues along the ridge, passing to the left of the wire fence all the way. There is a short descent, which leads to a viewpoint, and then we start climbing through the forest, and the path is quite steep in places. Higher up, the forest thins out and, with views of Karawanks, we reach Veronjak.
From Veronjak we first descend steeply along the south-west ridge, then the steepness eases and after a small pass, where a path from the nearby forest road joins us on the right, the path starts to climb again. A little further on, we cross cart track, and the path passes onto an overgrown clearing, from which we get a nice view of the northern walls of Košuta. Higher up, the path returns to the forest and continues along the ridge. After a while, crossing the next forest road, where a path that does not lead via Veronjak joins from the left, continue straight ahead and within a few minutes of further walking reach the summit of Veliki Rob.
Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg - Veronjak 1:25, Veronjak - Veliki Rob 0:50.
Description is as of October 2019, images are from November 2018 and October 2019.

On the way: Lužekar / Lausegger (1085m), Veronjak / Hausberg (1348m)

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